The details of the next Mobile Design UK event have been posted, the Mobile Design UK event will take place on the 4th of June at the Tavern Room at RSA on John Adam Street in London. The last Mobile Design UK event was really well presented and provided some great insight into the technical [...]

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I missed this yesterday. Nokia have released the Flash Lite Flash Lite Developer’s Library 1.1 . One of the important aspects of this launch is the inclusion of documentation for using the new Nokia S60 Platform Services. The Platform Services enable flash application to access Device Capabilities and services that were previously only possible through [...]

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I have become a member of an insignificantly small (at the moment), yet very vocal and very visible sub-group of mobile device users. That’s right, I have an iPhone, and you know what, I’m not too disappointed using it. Some (well, ok, most) of the time. Frankly there are some things that quite frankly rock [...]

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Back in November I posted a post titled “9 reasons the iPhone Sucks!”. It was a quick link to some comments a friend made regarding the iPhone being ‘a little disapointing’ when he first took delivery of Apple’s shiney new device. At the time I only had 3 gripes with Apple’s original mobile device. Since [...]

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Following the announcement from Adobe of the open screen project, news comes from the Embedded Systems Expo that NEC is showing what sounds like it might be an alternative to Adobe’s Flash Lite Player. Its a little hard to make complete sense of the post from EETimes.com. But some interesting quotes from the short, slightly [...]

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Thats right, its all very last minute but I will be presenting a session at the upcoming Over the Air event in London this week. My session is scheduled for Friday afternoon. Flash Video Nokia Masterclass – Dave Williamson (Adobe)Learn how to create live video applications with the most popular online video format on Nokia [...]

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As many people will have seen yesterday Nokia release a fairly major update to the N95 firmware. One of the major bonuses for flash developers is the inclusion of FlashLite 3 as standard onto the device, both as a standalone player and within the browser. For those using detection scripts the player version reported in [...]

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This just popped into my news reader from ZDNet. Well, you really believe that Flash is synonymous with the internet and frankly, anybody who wants to browse the web and experience the web’s glory really needs Flash support. We were very excited about the announcement from Windows Mobile, adoption of Flash on their devices and [...]

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More exciting news on the future of FlashLite 3 proliferation. Bill Perry has a great explanation of how the news that Microsoft has licensed Flash Lite 3 and Reader LE for future Windows Mobile based devices will affect FlashLite 3 content developers. Read the Full Press Release here

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First up is the announcement yesterday from Google thats Google Gears is making a move onto Mobile devices. Initially available for Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices, mobile web app developers have already started integrating Gears for mobile into their online services. also if you’re not a Windows Mobile user, stay [...]

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This evening I received an email from the mobile change service Fring announcing the new version is availible. As well as great new file swapping, Yahoo and AIM support and a host of other improvements, there was news of a new Flash based widget for websites that would allow people to contact you from your [...]

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Recently I have been heavily involved in an on going FlashLite 1.1 based project. Some thing I know my development peers have been extremely jealous of as they bang their heads against the hellish development processes of Flex, Air, ActionScript 3 and Flash 9, not! One of the most enjoyable features of FlashLite 1.1 is [...]

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I have still getting people sending me the IMEI numbers asking me to send them the Adobe FlashLite 3 player. For those that missed the announcement FlashLite 3 is freely availible as a Developer Edition on Symbian based mobile devices. The release notes on the Adobe Labs site explain that the player has only been [...]

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Last week it looks like the German webmasters of Nokia’s website managed to post the specifications for their latest update in the N series line of phones, the N96. This week I had the chance to lay my hands on the 8gig edition of the N95 and was impressed enough that it was going to [...]

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Recently I have been involved in some FlashLite 1.1 development that requires a certain level of online data interaction. With memory being at a premium on Mobile devices I have been spending many a spare moment looking at efficient data transfer methods. Stepping back into FlashLite 1.1 (flash 4/5) scripting has been a nostalgic experience. [...]

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Macca has posted a nice concise list of reasons the iPhone sucks. Personally I don’t have one of the devices, I don’t see the need when I can get an iPod Touch to do development testing on, its cheaper, and I wont be tied in for 18 months. At any rate here are my reasons [...]

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This morning I received an email from Apple letting me know I could now log into the iPhone Dev Center The iPhone Dev Center will provide quote. iPhone Reference Library Access documentation, guides, and release notes on developing web applications and content for iPhone. Web Development Guidelines Get the latest development techniques on mobile browser-based [...]

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Following on from the simple BatteryBroadcaster class posted last week I have put together a second helper class for FlashLite, again built in ActionScript 2, so it should work for any FlashLite 2 or FlashLite 3 project. The NetworkBroadcaster class centralises all network and signal related events, and broadcasts any changes to listeners on 2 [...]

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I have been sorting through some of my old code, commenting up some bits and generally refreshing the grey matter on some of the things I have been working on. I thought I would put some of the helper classes I use out into the wild. First up is a simple class that I used [...]

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Owners of iPhone, Blackberry, or Windows Mobile device can now access their Google documents on the go. Point your mobile device browser to this link Google Documents Mobile Edition via: Google Documents Blog

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The N810 features, Wifi, Bluetooth, GPRS and a full slide out keyboard. The screen has a good looking resolution at 800×480, but the thing that grabbed my eye was this nugget. The Nokia N810 is powered by maemo Linux based OS2008, updatable also on the Nokia N800, the previous internet tablet generation hardware. The Nokia [...]

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If you are interested in testing your new FlashLite 3 content on device, as all good developers should be, the there is an interim build of FlashLite 3 availible that has been certified only for Nokia N95. You must submit your IMEI number by Noon Eastern Time on the 16th of October. Details of the [...]

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Via Cameron Moore & Comscore: Over on Authentic Boredom, Cameron Moore draws attention to the huge numbers of mobile web users in Japan. Almost as many web users accessed the web in one form or another using their mobile phone as accessed the internet from a home or work computer in june apparently. … an [...]

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Following the press release announcing FlashLite 3 I proceeded to do some more digging. Wondering how I can start producing this new fangled FlashLite 3 Content, I followed some links through from the new Nokia Mobile Developers Site mentioned in the previous post and found new downloads for updates to Flash CS3 and Device Central [...]

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Adobe have posted a press release today, it seems that they announced the release of FlashLite 3 at Max in Chicago. Included in the release is the well know news from a previous press release that the new Mobile FlashLite player will support the Flash Streaming Video Format .FLV. Also mentioned in the release is [...]

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